# Jared Rulison

> Enjoys getting to the bottom of things

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jaredrulison

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Orchard
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Led cross-language document retrieval initiative by integrating with a multi-lingual embedding model, enabling search capabilities across multiple languages and expanding platform accessibility for global users.
Developed an intelligent query translation system using Large Language Models to automatically convert natural language search queries into optimized Lucene syntax with semantic re-ranking, enhancing search accuracy. Optimized
prompt effectiveness via chain-of-thought reasoning and iterative testing.
Participated in rotational shifts for Dataverse Search reliability. Triaged production alerts for quality and latency regressions, and coordinated mitigation responses. Identified blind spots in alert coverage and implemented new alerts to increase coverage.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Affinity, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Joined after Series A when the company had 15 engineers and 30 employees overall. Built out features across the stack before specializing in a backend/infrastructure role. Tools used include Ruby, Sinatra, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Terraform.

Feature development:
- Led project to overhaul filtering, sorting, and text search backend logic for in-product spreadsheet-like view, keeping endpoint latencies constant as database scaled 10x.
- Collaborated on implementation of First Event, Last Event, and Next Event spreadsheet columns using synced calendar data, enhancing data accessibility for users.
- Collaborated on creation and adoption of in-house logging system, allowing developers to more easily search and read logs.

Database Management:
 - Optimized SQL query performance and Ruby background job efficiencies through PostgreSQL statistics, restructuring queries, and modifying indexes. Authored popular blog post on using PostgreSQL extended statistics.

System architecture:
- Led creation of  acontrol plane service to manage a cellular multi-region architecture to better support European companies. Used AWS Step Functions and Lambdas to coordinate data between separate databases.
 - Led project to populate a dedicated performance-testing environment with fake data and built tools and workflows for simulating production traffic, allowing developers to test features without risking product reliability.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Twitch
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Improved latency of video replication system and implemented metrics to measure performance	increase.		Tools used include Golang and Mode Analytics.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Google
In Natural Language Processing research team, created workflow for streamlined data collection from human raters in Natural Language Processing research team.  Established baseline performance measurements on ATIS dataset using context-free grammars.  Expanded feature extraction capabilities of internal Machine Learning tools.  Used Python, Google internal tools.

### Research Assistant @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, CA
Constructing rigs and devices for optogenetics research.  Using Python, Arduino, and Eagle PCB design.  Working in Prof. Laura Waller's lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.

### Research Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA
Constructed rigs for optogenetics and thermotaxis of C. elegans worms.  Performed research on mechanosensation in terms of how it varies when light-induced and with temperature variance.

### Quality Control Intern @ Intuitive Surgical
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale, CA
Tested instruments of the da Vinci surgical machine.


## Education
### Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rulison

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Last updated: 2026-03-29